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Hi all! I am new here and very excited to be a part of this nice goup of people. Everybody seems so helpful and friendly. I hope I can help out once I get more experienced with this low-carb thing.

My good friend, my mom, and I all started a modified Induction on Wednesday the 16th of this week...my dad thinks I am crazy as I only have 10 pounds to lose, as do my friend and mom, but we all want to look good in our bikinis this summer!!! Anyhow, I personally have done Induction KIND OF (kind of meaning I am having 25-30 grams a day of carbs instead of 20g, and I am still having caffeine and occasional alcohol). It has been very hard as I have a major sugar tooth, and not mention, I am an emotional eater and when teaching stresses me out, I normally grab chocolate or soda to deal with the stress.

I am nervous about the weekend being here, and going out to eat and staying discilplined...last night I had a diet coke and rum, (I know, the aspartame and alcohol are no-no's), and also a chicken salad and I dipped my bites into a little ranch dressing (very little). I THINK I still only had about 30 G of carbs...I THINK...can someone clarify this? All day I had:
Eggs and ham(0g)
A half a bag of pork rinds (5 g)
Half a large cucumber(?3g)
A Carls Jr. low-carb burger(6g)
A hard-boiled egg(0g)
4 grams of carbs from a Diet Rite(1g), the diet coke(1g) and 2 packets of Splenda(2g)
The chicken salad with Ranch I mentioned above(??maybe 10 g?? with the lettuce and ranch)
**And THEN, I was BAD, 2 grams of carbs from a miniature LC ice cream bar with 5 grams of carbs total...2 G fiber, 1 sugar and 1 sugar alcohol (so 1g, right?).
***Does that sound like about 30 grams altogether, guys?

Two more questions:
1) I have lost 5 pounds already since Wednesday. This is mostly water weight, right? Encouraging but it's like, how can this be? Could it be that I normally have 200-200 grams of carbs a day and going to 25-30 is so drastic?
2) Can I have low-carb products right now, for example, the chocolate bars that have net 2 grams of carbs (with sugar alcohols), etc? IE was that little ice cream bar I had last night bad? Or should I totally keep those out of the picture until my 14 days are up?

Thanks so much for reading!!!
Lisa (iluvgavman) - Gavin is my 2 year old son